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Since these cells are there by the development of the immune system, the immune cells recognize them as self. By blood transfusion with incompatible blood type, the immune system recognizes the blood cells with different histocompatibility antigens (A,B,Rh etc...) as non-self, that's why it attacks them.

Hydrogen peroxide, very potent oxidant, is used in case of skin cutting, small wounds etc. I think, firstly, It helps by killing bacteria that might otherwise cause infection. I couldn't find evidence of hydrogen peroxide promoting clot formation.
However, being an oxidative agent, H2O2 might be very harmful to gentle epithelium of nose. Theoretically, it ...

No, I don't think oxygenated water does anything to stop bloody noses. But holding a wet cotton swab with pressure to the inside of the nose might.
The vast majority of bloody noses in healthy individuals arise from one specific area in the nose (on either side):
In the mucosa of the nasal septum (the cartilagenous structure separating the nose into two ...

In short, rate of expression of intracellular cholesterol removal proteins like ABCA1 in macrophages and cytokine waterfall molecules in T-lymphocytes beside other anti-inflammatory cytokines has an important role in AS and why oxLDLs accumulate in intima.
When there is high level of oxLDL, rate of removal mechanism must increase to take extra cholesterol ...

The trick for the stem cells lies in the way the proliferate and differentiate. See the image (from the reference 1):
Stem cells have the problem that they need to differentiate and maintain their population at the same time (subfigure a). This can either be done by asymmetric cell division which leads to one daughter which is still a stem cell and one ...